What is at stake: Back in November 2008, HM Queen Elizabeth II wondered why no one saw the crisis coming. Around the same time, Alan Greenspan was admitting that he was in a state of shocked disbelief because the whole intellectual edifice had collap...

As we have been informing our readers in recent weeks, the EPA issue ensures that EAC members states do not go unnoticed. According to recent reports, former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa has noted that there are three options on the table...

What is at stake: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sent a detailed letter to the G20 finance ministers calling for tough new capital rules for the world’s largest banks. Shortly after, the 27 central bank governors and bank supervisors of the wo...

What is at stake: The question of remuneration in the financial services’ industry has become central and featured to a large extent on the agenda of finance ministers from the G20 group of leading industrialised and emerging economies as they met...

Eurozone's leaders emerged bleary-eyed to hail 'a comprehensive blueprint' that would put Greece on the straight and narrow"Is this the way they say the future's meant to feel?" asked Pulp. "Or just 20,000 people standing in a field?" As dawn broke i...

The EU will spend over 11.1 million euros in support of conservation agriculture in Zambia between 2013 and 2016, benefiting 19,572 farmers from 30 districts. According to the EU Head of Delegation in Zambia, Kirsi Pekuri, this support was needed...

As they look at Clegg, the Tories wonder why their own leader isn’t showing voters what he stands for By their fruits ye shall know them, and the Liberal Democrats revealed much when they picked Professor Les Ebdon to run the quango that oversees u...

What is paw-nography, wonders a baffled Kat In a post that is likely to create general havoc with law firm IT policies everywhere, this Kat brings you a thought-provoking piece concerning the copyright status of pornographic films in the US. Ha...

Forty five thousand less beds and overall hospital capacity reduced by 15%, twelve hour waits in A&E and serious staff shortages: these are the headline results of official figures covering the past decade that have been analysed by Il Fatto Quot...

The EU will provide a total sum of €20 million to fund the 'Promoting Better Management of Migration in Nigeria’ programme. The project, which has been designed in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria , will address key challenge...

In recent months the EU security policy jargon has been filled up with catchy buzzwords, such as ‘permanent operational headquarters’ or ‘pooling and sharing.’ Some experts even coined the latter into an ironic phrase: “you pool, we share,

Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw called for the abolition of the European Parliament at an event organised by IPPR today. According to the Guardian, Straw said: “I am now clear that there is a major democratic deficit within the EU. And it i...

Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw called for the abolition of the European Parliament at an event organised by IPPR today. According to the Guardian, Straw said: “I am now clear that there is a major democratic deficit within the EU. And it i...

Hungarian Premier Victor Orban and his ruling party Fidesz, after having received 53% of the votes in the previous election but 68% of parliamentary seats, have transformed Hungarian institutions, effectively asserting and entrenching control over co...

Dutch member of the European parliament Judith Merkies (who now also supports our mission) has started a write-in campaign for lower roaming charges. Ms Merkies who sits on the key committee ITRE stated: “Kroes’ proposal is way too cautious. We &...

This is the second part in an EFF series. Part I, on UK-based FinFisher and France-based Amesys, can be read here On Sunday, CNN reported that dozens of activists in Syria have had their computers infected with malware that allows supporters of dicta...

“Celebrated scientists and development thinkers today warn that civilisation is faced with a perfect storm of ecological and social problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption and environmentally malign technologies.” (Source: The Guardian...

From Avaaz: Dear friends, Assad’s ruthless massacre of civilians in his attempt to crush the Syrian Spring is escalating. But a new international coalition led by Arab League members is meeting in 3 days and is our best hope to stop the bloodshed.

From Avaaz: Dear friends, Assad’s ruthless massacre of civilians in his attempt to crush the Syrian Spring is escalating. But a new international coalition led by Arab League members is meeting in 3 days and is our best hope to stop the bloodshed.

There are many thousands of people in Britain living with and beyond breast cancer – over 48,000 people, of whom the vast majority are women, are diagnosed each year – and, for them, the disease can have long-lasting effects on their phys...

I only ask because, defending his health bill in the Commons today, the Health Secretary used very little of the opaque jargon on which he is so keen. Normally his every sentence is a sand-cloud of gibberish: "integrated care pathways", "outcome fram...

While this is an issue the editorial Quango here at ¡No Pasarán! visits from time to time, I did not realize that it’s not so much about scaring dog walkers, but rather gathering statistics. The committed naturist kept score of the number of posi...

The EESC’s Bureau held a very productive meeting this afternoon and evening. As always, the meeting was in part about the routine of preparing Wednesday’s and Thursday’s plenary session although, even then, not all is ‘routine...

Austerity policies deal with the symptoms rather than the causes of the crisis. For as long as the underlying malignancies of the Greek economy stay in place, austerity will remain a largely self-defeating approach towards to the crisis. Image Source...